Category: Talent Ecosystem

Flipkart to hire 300 graduates

The Walmart owned company, Flipkart, has announced its plans to hire around 300 graduates. Around 80 of these recruitments will be done from the IITs where placements are currently going on.

Wipro to roll out salary hikes from January 1

Wipro, global information technology, consulting and business process services company, is all set to roll out salary hikes for its junior employees (B3 and below) who are eligible, effective January 1, 2021. The junior band i.e. upto B3 comprises of 80% of its total 1.8 lakh employees. The employees at the mid-level i.e. C1 and…

Bangalore-based NoBroker to hire 500 new employees

Bangalore-based startup NoBroker is looking to increase its employee headcount to 500 in-order to meet the changing customer needs. The hiring will take place across all levels for the technology and product teams. The online real-estate platform has a total number of 2000 employees currently with a recent hiring of 500 new professionals in marketing,…

Flipkart to extend WFH for its 12,000 employees till May, 2021

E-commerce company, Flipkart, headquartered in Bangalore, has asked its employees to continue to work from home due to COVID-19 pandemic, till May 2021. According to an internal email sent by the company to its employees, the retail giant has decided to extend the phase two of the ‘back to office plan’ till the May of…

Walmart to spend more than $700 Million in Additional Associate Bonuses

Walmart has announced more than $700 million in additional cash bonuses to its U.S.-based associates. The company’s latest bonus announcement includes $319 million in quarterly bonuses paid in associates’ Nov. 25 paychecks following third quarter business performance and an estimated $388 million in special cash bonuses to be paid Dec. 24. Full- and part-time associates…

IndiGo to remove leave without pay from January 1

CEO Ronojoy Dutta of IndiGo has announced the removal of leave without pay for staff across all departments. The announcement will be effective from January 1, 2021. The same day government also allowed airlines to utilise 80 per cent of their pre-Covid capacity seeing to the increasing number of passengers. Domestic air traffic recorded a…

Amazon to roll out tools to monitor factory staff and machines

E-commerce giant, Amazon has announced the launch of Distance Assistant solution, to monitor manufacturing staff and machines in India. The Distance Assistant solution will be deployed across its operational sites in the country, to remind the workers, through visual cues and sensors, to maintain social distancing in real-time. Dr Karuna Shankar Pande, Director-Fulfilment Centres and…

Task force set up for technical education in Mother Tongue

The Union Education Minister – Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has set up a task force for preparing a roadmap on imparting technical education in Mother Tongue. He informed that the task force set up under the chairmanship of Secretary, Higher Education will take into consideration the suggestions made by various stakeholders and will submit a…

Debenhams set to close without alternative offer, 12,000 jobs at risk

British multinational retail store operator, Debenhams is set to wind up its chain and shut down its 124 remaining stores without alternative offer, potentially putting the job of 12,000 employees at risk. The administrators made the above announcement a day after Arcadia Group of Sir Philip Green wound up its stores putting 13,000 jobs out…